Building as Everydayness

Building as Everydayness ANTONIA CARRARA, CHLOÉ DUGIT-GROS, RAPHAËL GRISEY, THOMAS KLIMOWSKI, JULIA ROMETTI & VICTOR COSTALES Curated by Estelle Nabeyrat Scaramouche is pleased to present the exhibition, "Building as Everydayness," uniting a group of artists living an... Read more

Building as Everydayness

ANTONIA CARRARA, CHLOÉ DUGIT-GROS, RAPHAËL GRISEY,
THOMAS KLIMOWSKI, JULIA ROMETTI & VICTOR COSTALES

Curated by Estelle Nabeyrat

Scaramouche is pleased to present the exhibition, “Building as Everydayness,” uniting a group of artists living and working in Paris. Each of these artists utilizes architecture and the built environment as a starting point for exploring the forgotten histories, individual memories, and political events embedded in the inanimate and quotidian world. Working with a variety of media including sculpture, collage, video, and installation, the artists have adopted Henri Lefebrve’s aim in the “Critique of Everyday Life” (1947) – that the “object of our study is everyday life, with the idea, or rather the project (the programme) of transforming it.” However utopian this Modernist goal was in the 1940s, its triumphs and failures can be seen in the distinctive motifs running through the artists’ work, in their examination of the physical ruins of Modernist architecture in the present-day, as well as the adoption of Modernist abstraction in the fields of commercial design and popular culture.